Clothes-line-prop attachment.



-H. E. RICE.

CLOTHES LINE PROP ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAYZZ, 1917.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

HENRY E. RICE, OF CAMERON, MISSOURI.

CLOTHES-LINE-PROP ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 23, 191?.

Application filed May 22, 1917. Serial No. 170,184.

Yb alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. RICE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cameron, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-LineJProp Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a clothes line prop attachment which is cheap and simple in construction, the at tachment being manufactured of a piece of resilient wire, the central portion of which is looped and is held yieldingly in operative position by coiled portions of the wire beyond which the terminals of the wire extend for disposal against the prop, the terminals being bent to form seats in which the clothes line is held by the looped portion of the wire when in operative position. The terminals of the wire are secured to the prop by two bands which are disposed across the terminals one at each side of the seats.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specification, in which the preferred form of the invention disclosed.

The drawing is a perspective view of the invention.

By referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the attachment 5 is secured to a prop 6 and that the attachment serves to hold a clothes line 7 in position on the prop.

The attachment is constructed of resilient wire having a looped portion 8 normally disposed substantially parallel with the face 1 of the prop, the resilient wire beyond this looped portion 8 being coiled at 9 and having its terminals 10 extending along the face of the prop 6. These terminals 10 have portions bent outwardly at 1,1, .111- Wardly at 12, outwardly again at 13, and inwardly at 14:, so that seats 15 will be formed by the portions 12 and 13 of the terminals 10. The terminals beyond the portions 14 extend at 16. The said terminals 10 are secured to the prop 6 by means of straps 17, two of these straps 17 being provided which are disposed transversely across the terminals 10 one at each side of the seats 15, the ends of the straps 17 being secured to the prop 6 by means of fasteners 18.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Intent:

1. In a clothes line prop attachment, a resilient wire having a looped portion, the wire beyond the looped portion being coiled, with its terminals extending in the general direction of its looped portion, one of the terminals being bent to form a seat in which a clothes line may be held by the looped portion.

2. In combination with a clothes line prop, a resilient wire having a looped portion extending when in normal position substan tially parallel with the prop, the wire beyond the looped portion being coiled adjacent the prop, with its terminals extending along the face of the prop substantially parallel with the said looped portion of the wire, the terminals being bent to form seats in which a clothes line may be held by the looped portion, and two straps disposed across the Wire terminals one at each side of the seats and secured to the prop.

HENRY E. RICE.

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